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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2016) Street food vendors at a roadside market just outside of Hua Hin District, Thailand Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Street food Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Attic • Noise Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 31 October 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Talk:Nothing Was the Same The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Nothing Was the Same. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 31 October 2016 (UTC) Tech News: 2016-44 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [1] Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [2] The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [3] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar). Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [4] Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [5] Future changes New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [6] Miscellaneous The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language. Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC) New page reviewer granted Hello MRD2014. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong. You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not. Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer. Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice. The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. — MusikAnimal talk 23:31, 31 October 2016 (UTC) @MusikAnimal: Thank you!! —MRD2014 (Happy Halloween!) 23:31, 31 October 2016 (UTC) No subject Hi, I just wanted to ask how will I know if I have the license to add a photo in wikipedia from another website. Donna Biju (talk) 08:14, 31 October 2016 (UTC) @Donna Biju: I'm not very familiar with files and licenses. You could look at the image use policy to find out more. —MRD2014 (Happy Halloween!) 12:02, 31 October 2016 (UTC) Hey thanks a lot 😀Donna Biju (sorry couldn't sign) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donna Biju (talk • contribs) 13:08, 2 November 2016 (UTC) The Signpost: 4 November 2016 News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage Wikicup: WikiCup winners Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year? Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content Featured content: Cream of the crop Traffic report: Un-presidential politics Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:51, 4 November 2016 (UTC) 22:49:00, 4 November 2016 review of submission by Frenchreader33 Frenchreader33 (talk · contribs) Draft:Henri Michel-Lévy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Hi, I have included references to various sources as requested (encyclopedia and various books and monographs on arts) and removed the reference to wikipedia in French. Let me know what your thoughts are. I think it looks better now, but there are external links in the body of the draft that need to be removed (especially the Wikipedia external links). Use wikilinks (Example: [[Link title]]) to link to other Wikipedia articles. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 00:39, 5 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC) Washington Huskies women's volleyball team Can you explain why you moved this page right after I declined [7] the speedy deletion request on the redirect? I did this because a previous move had been reverted and I felt that this was therefore not uncontroversial and should be discussed first. SpinningSpark 21:30, 4 November 2016 (UTC) @Spinningspark: I went to WP:RM/TR and saw it listed there, and based on the rationale provided there, it seemed uncontroversial to me, and that is why I moved it (see how pages in Category:College women's volleyball teams in the United States are titled; they don't include "team"). The page history of Washington Huskies women's volleyball team did not show any previous moves to a page that included "team". —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 00:35, 5 November 2016 (UTC) This may be uncontroversial, on the other hand it may not have been. IMO this should have gone to discussion after the first revert. The question here is did you see my decline of the speedy deletion and the previous move reversion? If you did not you should learn to check page histories first. If you did, then you deliberately overrode a prior administrative decision. Page moves over a redirect involve deleting a page, and this used to be a right only granted to administrators. They should be carried out with great care. I would have been fine with this if the edit summary had carried a link to a discussion or a page where title format for these articles is defined. However, you did not even acknowledge my previous action in your edit. SpinningSpark 10:34, 5 November 2016 (UTC) @Spinningspark: The cut-and-paste move screwed up everything. I am going to open up a discussion at Talk:Washington Huskies women's volleyball. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 5 November 2016 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2016) A sword dance performance Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Sword dance Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Street food • Attic Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 7 November 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-45 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [8] First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [9] .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [10] Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [11] Changes this week The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar). Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [12] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [13][14][15] Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 10 November 2016 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2016) A woman wearing a dress Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Dress Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sword dance • Street food Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 14 November 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-46 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [16] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar). In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [17] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Magic links might not work in the future. [18] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC) New Page Review needs your help Hi MRD2014, As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically). Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted. Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review. It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial. (Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Graph database The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Graph database. Legobot (talk) 04:35, 16 November 2016 (UTC) binary spdy del article I put it as Advertising because I put the content through a binary text translator and it displayed a youtube URL. I doesn't matter, though--Mr. Guye (talk) 01:38, 18 November 2016 (UTC) I understand. It was a copy of the title, which is why I changed it from G11 to A3. It was deleted per G3. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 01:41, 18 November 2016 (UTC) No subject thanks for the help i do not anticipate using this much, to tell the truth all i want to do is edit but i appreciate the prompt and helpful reply ciao r Richrat4 (talk) 04:10, 20 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on MediaWiki talk:Common.css The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on MediaWiki talk:Common.css. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 20 November 2016 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2016) A cleaning sponge Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Sponge (material) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Dress • Sword dance Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-47 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [19] You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [20] The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has. Problems A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [21] Changes this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [22][23][24] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [25] Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [26] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC) need the content of my deleted page i need the content of my deleted page "ROYAL WORLD EVENTS". please delete the page but i need the content. please mail it to nevyjain290696@gmail.com or show me any other way to get my content back. i need it as soon as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nevy jain (talk • contribs) 14:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC) (Replying with alternative account) I am not an administrator so I cannot view the deleted content. The deleting admin was Espresso Addict, so ask them about the page here. —MRD2014 (public) (main account • talk) 16:49, 21 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open! Hello, MRD2014. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) New Page Reviewer - RfC Hi MRD2014. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:04, 24 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on MediaWiki talk:Sidebar The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on MediaWiki talk:Sidebar. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 24 November 2016 (UTC) The Signpost: 26 November 2016 News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 Featured content: Featured mix Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent Traffic report: President-elect Trump * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC) New Page Review - newsletter Hello MRD2014, Breaking the back of the backlog We now have 813 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action. Mid July to 01 Oct 2016 If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work! Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Second set of eyes Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation. Sent to all New Page Reviewers. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:16, 26 November 2016 (UTC) . This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2016) Homework may include mathematical exercises Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Homework Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sponge (material) • Dress Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 28 November 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-48 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes this week When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [27] When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [28] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar). Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [29][30] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Protests against Donald Trump The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Protests against Donald Trump. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 29 November 2016 (UTC) No subject hi!Im syed afsün u told me that i might get blocked or something for changing amber heards info on wiki but i dont think i did any thing with mber heards page i dont remember editing it please reply and say what did i edit so that i can atleast remember — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed Afsün (talk • contribs) 09:19, 30 November 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 2 December 2016 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2016) Three Martinis Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Three-martini lunch Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Homework • Sponge (material) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:10, 5 December 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-49 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [31] Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [32] ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [33] Changes this week You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [34] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 6 December 2016 (UTC) BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC)) BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC) RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers! This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for: Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled Editor-focused central editing dashboard "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis) Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016. Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings. Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox single The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox single. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 10 December 2016 (UTC) New Page Review - newsletter #2 Hello MRD2014, Please help reduce the New Page backlog This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day. Getting the tools we need ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE Improve the tools: Vote here. Reduce your review load: Vote here Sent to all New Page Reviewers. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:54, 11 December 2016 (UTC) . This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2016) The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hoax Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Three-martini lunch • Homework Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2016-50 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [35] You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [36] Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [37] Problems Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [38] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox officeholder The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 14 December 2016 (UTC) Gray-asexuality I completely understand why you reverted my edit-I screwed up a little bit. Would you be willing to look at the new content I added in after your revert? I put the Demisexuality section on the page and was more careful about my wording and quotation marks, but I want to make sure the section is completely good and fits Wiki's guidelines. Ariadne (talk) 13:06, 15 December 2016 (UTC) Ariadne, I'm the one who reverted you. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 13:47, 15 December 2016 (UTC) Merry Christmas! Hello MRD2014: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, 🎅Patient Crimbo🎅 grotto presents 20:26, 18 December 2016 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2016) Helena Bergström in 2014 Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Helena Bergström Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Hoax • Three-martini lunch Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Talk:Death of JonBenét Ramsey The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Death of JonBenét Ramsey. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 19 December 2016 (UTC) Tech News: 2016-51 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Tech News Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017. The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you! Recent changes Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [39] Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [40] Problems Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [41] Changes this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either. Meetings The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join. Future changes The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC) Merry Christmas! ~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~ Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! Hello, MRD2014! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Linguist If you reply to me here, please add {{ping|Linguist111}} to the start of your message 20:23, 20 December 2016 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}} Semiprotected your talk Per another editor's request at WP:RFPP. If you want the semi modified let me know, or post at WP:RFPP. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 20:24, 20 December 2016 (UTC) @EdJohnston: Thanks. I think it's good enough. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 20:28, 20 December 2016 (UTC) The Signpost: 22 December 2016 Year in review: Looking back on 2016 News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results Special report: German ArbCom implodes In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more Featured content: The Christmas edition Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced Recent research: One study and several abstracts * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Cold War The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Cold War. 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